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One of the best Christmas movies out there for me, no question, and yes, tons to unpack and dissect with every viewing. Such an experience.
I’m happy that Eyes Wide Shut is getting recognized as a generally great movie. Although I wish that Kubrick would have made a movie in between FMJ and EWS. He didn’t end a bad note though. For any of his movies. Although, I also wish Jennifer Jason Leigh could have finished her part.
I really want to see his vision for Napoleon Bonaparte. Keeps me up at night thinking about it.
Isn’t that the one he wanted to make with Nicholson?
Pretty much all of his canceled or fizzled out projects are really, really exciting prospects that will always have me asking "what if?"
Yep, it must be Christmas, always give this a watch around this time of year, this World War 2 epic, doesn't appear to be on any of the T.V. schedules this year, which is surprising! Always a blast, I also gave the behind the scenes film a look, which is great if too short, it was nice seeing Director Brian Hutton orchestrating things with the aid of legendary stuntman, now second unit director, Yakima Canutt, one of the reasons Clint Eastwood signed on! Bond connection here too as Anthony Waye is also one of the crew! Fab set of actors on here too, like Michael Hordern and Derren Nesbitt, and the wonderful Ferdy Mayne, who also stars in one of my annual Xmas watches, Roman Polanskis 'Dance of the Vampires'
One of my favorite WWII films! Great cast from the top down and the sense of scale and danger is off the charts.
I love the scene where they conveyed that a character jumped out a plane by a gap in the sound of air rushing by.
One of my top 5 favorite films ever. I grew up with it. I was watching it with my best friend/roommate and he'd never seen it before. He seemed to like it okay, but he particularly loved the Lardass story.
One of the most relatable movies ever made. A true classic.
I've seen it many times; but it gets even better with age. In part because it very much is about aging men out place in a modernizing world ...
Plus Damiano Damiani's A Bullet for the General, which is almost certainly a major influence on Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch; and Sergio Sollima's Face to Face, another great one, which features Leone's screenwriter Sergio Donati.
All three in prep (along with several books) for the upcoming 22 film spaghetti western retrospective next month at the Cinémathèque Québécoise here in Montreal.
https://www.cinematheque.qc.ca/fr/cinema/?cycles=41236
I might finally come to Montreal! (Was going to come for the eclipse next year as well)
Tim Burton and Director Henry Selicks fabulous animated tale, looks terrific in this bluray disc. Dazzling in places, it has a great story, and characters and Danny Elfmans wonderful music and songs! Fitting Christmas watch!
Didn't get the chance to watch OHMSS last year, so I made sure to make time for an early Christmas watch yesterday. It never fails to amaze me how many great shots there are this film. The great locations certainly play a big part in this, but OHMSS really is beautifully shot throughout.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition. I treated myself to the 4K boxset for Christmas and it is absolutely outstanding, one of the best films i have seen on 4K.
This film is incredible as we all know, this is the best it has ever looked and sounded on home cinema it is considerably better than my Bluray boxset version.
Not many film's hit the emotional notes like this one, despite watching this film hundreds of times before my eyes still well up in key moments. 20 years later this trilogy has not been matched or any film's got even close.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Extended Cut 4K
This is definitely in contention for the greatest film ever made. I studied Tolkien and Norse mythology at university and I am in awe of this incredible film. Masterpiece.
Gollum's Song
The Jungle Book (1967)
Despite the advances in animation in the Disney canon, this is sill my favourite! Comes down to characters, voices (love George Sanders tones!) and songs, and simple feel good factor, ideal for a Christmas morning!
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
And still my favourite Bond movie! Nothing more to be said!
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
This used to be my all time favourite movie, and is still hugely entertaining! Great cast (Newman and Redford) great direction (George Roy Hill) great script (William Goldman) and of course memorable score (Burt Bacharach) and that final freeze frame is a doozy!
Some Like it Hot (1959)
And final late night viewing, what better than to end with some laughs in this classic comedy! Fabulous!
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation this film is so stupid, an all time classic.
I’m fairly neutral when it comes to the original but like Gene Wilder and what he brought to his Wonka. I have a certain soft spot for Burton’s version, my Daughter was 8 when it came out and we saw it several times. Depp is Depp and I don’t find him creepy just “ Burton” Bizarre.
I will say, Hugh Grant was outstanding; at one time he could have made an excellent Wonka.
Just finished my yearly viewing of Assignment K, this time on Blu-ray for the very first time. I was excited to see if Imprint's brand new limited release offered more than my digital copy of this forgotten spy film, but unfortunately the improvements were minor. I guess the source material Imprint had available wasn't very good, which makes this release feel more like a regular DVD release really. Still, it's good to have physical copy of the film - which might be the best presentation we'll get.
Picture quality aside, it was an enjoyable watch as always.
Highly uneven, often crudely comedic, and not the best of the Sergio Corbucci spaghetti westerns (The Great Silence; The Mercenary; Django); but still fascinating for fans of the genre - not least for capturing something of the energy, mayhem and revolutionary spirit of the times in which it was made, though certainly not PC by the standards of today.
By far the strongest single element is the Ennio Morricone score, especially its insanely catchy theme song:
I always forget Pierce Brosnan has a brief appearance in this film.
Didn't this one also feature Pierce in an tiny early role?
I remember it was okay, though nothing special.
I do love Hamilton's Evil Under the Sun though.
Yeah just edited my above post lol
Edward Fox and Charles Gray also feature so there are a few Bond connections.